Rock Band

Ethan is awesome at singing on Rock Band. His favorite songs are Hungry Like A Wolf, Eye of the Tiger, Living on a Prayer, and Monsoon. Yes my son has eighties rock taste!

Hockey

After watching the Olympics Ethan got really excited about hockey! (He did the same thing with swimming after the summer Olympics)

Lego Sets

My son has come to love, appreciate, and seek out any Lego sets he can. He is specifically interested in those sets that are related to castles, knights, and Star Wars! I have started to put each set in a separate bin...can't have them mixed up because then you wouldn't have the set anymore. Too funny. What I have discovered is that my husband has an affinity for Lego sets too.

Baby's Room

As many of you know we are expecting our second child come April. Most of you have been helping us praying for the health and safety of our child. Keep praying.

This month my wonderful Sister in Laws, Abby and Sara, and my amazing Mom and Mother in Law came down to help set up our daughter's room. It turned out beautiful!




Disclaimer: It is funny how many working shots or pictures taken were tushy shots. I tried not to post those out of love for my helpful family.

Olympics Birthday

On Feb 6th Ethan celebrated his six birthday by having his friends come to an Olympic Party. Upon arrival each child was given a country to represent, with the flag to wear on their clothes. The we played the games (hula hoop, relay, jump rope, and a bowling tournament). This has made watching the real Olympics a lot of fun this year. Ethan will see a flag and point out which friend was that country and we have to cheer for his friend's country. Too cute!

To end in true Olympic fashion, we had events that awarded the children with trophies and had a medal ceremony at the end. Each child approached the podium with the Olympic music playing and received their gold medal.

New Concerns

A recent ultrasound showed a possible problem with our unborn daughter, as did the follow up ultrasound. Our doctor felt it wise to refer us up to University of Washington. While my prayer was that the possible problem would go away this was not to be so. The ultrasound again showed fluid at the base of our daughter's brain. She was diagnosed with Dandy-Walker Variant. I have researched this some but am still at a lost as to what it all means. We won't know the full effect until after she is born in April, it can be nothing to something major. The UW would like us to come back at 28 weeks (late Jan) to have an MRI done on our baby and to have us meet with a neurological specialist at Children's hospital. Basically the doctors want to do close monitoring on her to see if the fluid mass grows or diminishes. They would also like us to deliver up north in Seattle. There is still a chance that this could resolve itself before birth.

Please pray that the fluid diminishes and that the cerebellum connects properly to the fourth ventricle in the brain. I know that God can do all things. In addition pray that I can accept his plan as perfect, even if our child is born having developmental delays or motor-skill issues (both are a possibility). Finally pray that our insurance will cover all the things we will need to do to make sure our daughter has the best care before and after she is born.

Roller Skates

Ethan always has the ability to be good at anything he tries. So his expectations of success are fairly high. He seems to have brought this expectation to roller skating as well.

All he asked Santa for were roller skates.


But then he got a bit cocky....